Was watching this movie today. Think that it is pretty good. In the movie, Derek was asked by his teacher/councilor "What did u do to try to make your life better?" He could not answer because he felt he never tried i guess. So i am now asking myself back the same question and "Did I try?"

At the end of the movie, Danny, the other main character, was shot in his sch toilet. He was to submit an essay to his teacher that morning. At the end of his essay he quoted someone. The person quoted was not mention. It triggered my curiousity to find out and here it is.....

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

Think the quote is slightly different in the script though.